Animation Anti Aliasing

Sawyer · August 26th, 2003

I am working on what is really one of my first animations. I am getting a fair amount of banding and lighting artifacts I am wondering what the best a.a. setting is for animations. I was given this project on very short notice so I may not be able to redo it but just for general info is there a good quality/time filter?

Cheers

SF

ingo · August 26th, 2003

Well, that depends obviously on your software. But you can also render at a higher resolution without aa and scale it down later.

choochee · August 27th, 2003

What software to U use ?

Sawyer · August 27th, 2003

Yeah I can see why that may be important. This is in max 5.1 no advanced lighting just a light dome.

John Dollus · August 27th, 2003

Is your light dome using mapped shadows? The artifacting you describe sounds like it.

Sawyer · August 27th, 2003

Yeah they are shadow mapped. Basically this was a project that is impossibly tight time wise. I was given 10 days to do 2 animations but I have to do it in my own time so just nights & weekends. So I just have enough time to do 1 test animation and that is it no more time. So I am kind of seeing a lot of things that I wont do again.

Shouldnt complain too much the cash is there so it works but it is very stressful to have this little control over the final version.

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Sawyer Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: CA Age: 34 Posts: 1,563 Name: Sawyer Fischer	I am working on what is really one of my first animations. I am getting a fair amount of banding and lighting artifacts I am wondering what the best a.a. setting is for animations. I was given this project on very short notice so I may not be able to redo it but just for general info is there a good quality/time filter? Cheers SF __________________ And you may ask yourself What is that beautiful house?

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ingo Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Hamburg, mostly harmless Posts: 642 Name: ingo M	Well, that depends obviously on your software. But you can also render at a higher resolution without aa and scale it down later. __________________ ingo *** www.im-graphics.com

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choochee Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Israel Age: 39 Posts: 102 Name: Yossi Rachevsky	What software to U use ? __________________ www.n-trace.com visit us !

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Sawyer Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: CA Age: 34 Posts: 1,563 Name: Sawyer Fischer	Yeah I can see why that may be important. This is in max 5.1 no advanced lighting just a light dome. __________________ And you may ask yourself What is that beautiful house?

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Sawyer Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: CA Age: 34 Posts: 1,563 Name: Sawyer Fischer	Yeah they are shadow mapped. Basically this was a project that is impossibly tight time wise. I was given 10 days to do 2 animations but I have to do it in my own time so just nights & weekends. So I just have enough time to do 1 test animation and that is it no more time. So I am kind of seeing a lot of things that I wont do again. Shouldnt complain too much the cash is there so it works but it is very stressful to have this little control over the final version. __________________ And you may ask yourself What is that beautiful house?

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John Dollus Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Tampa Age: 38 Posts: 619 Name: John Dollus	Is your light dome using mapped shadows? The artifacting you describe sounds like it.

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